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Puzzle 113 


By changing the second letter of each of the words below, can you make another valid word?

You have to change each word such that the second letters will reveal a ten-letter word when read downwards.

Therefore, what now reads 'craihruane' will be a real word.
icon crew farm oily chop arid fund wait gnat tear

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Puzzle 114 


Below you will find 15 well-known seven-letter words, with only their endings remaining.

Can you find the words?
----nst ----nip ----fth ----rno ----dox ----sil ----nac ----iem ----arb ----ior ----bey ----van ----ipt ----dth ----nox

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Puzzle 115 


In each of these sentences, can you replace the missing number.

The number is written as a word (e.g. five, twenty-four, thirty-three), and each sentence is correct after the replacement.

This sentence contains ? X.
Slightly trickier, this sentence contains ? R's.
Even trickier, this sentence contains precisely ? E's.
This sentence has exactly ? letters.
This sentence, hopefully, contains ? letters, one hyphen, five commas, and four Y's.
To finish, if this sentence had a T removed, it would contain ? letters!

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Puzzle 116 


Which fruit comes next in this sequence:

banana  pear  kiwi  tomato  ?
Choose from:

peach, lemon, plum, guava

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